DISARMAMENT: Khrushchev says Nyet

Having battled the crush at the Russians' Claridge's tea-fight (see above)
without much success, Harold Stassen and his wife were on the point of going
home when up barged Andrei Gromyko. "Have you met Khrushchev
yet?" asked Gromyko, who is Stassen's opposite number on the five-man
U.N. subcommittee meeting in London to discuss disarmament. Seconds later
Stassen found himself in an inner sanctum, peeling grapes with the Kremlin's
masters. For two hours he listened to the bluntest Russian talk yet on the
subject of disarmament.

Until Khrushchev opened his mouth, the State Department had been feeling
discreetly...